Summer

Summer preschool and kindergarten themes, activities, games, and printables to cure the rainy day and summer boredom blues. Enjoy our collection of creative, fun, engaging activities, games, craft ideas, and learning experiences. Summer allows children to learn in a less structured setting and to have fun, laugh, and play together. Keep your children physically active and mentally challenged during the long, summer days with these fun ideas.

Flowers preschool and kindergarten activities, games, crafts, and lesson plans. April showers bring May flowers. May is a traditional month to celebrate spring. The weather is turning warm, birds are singing, and flowers are blooming. One way to celebrate spring is to make May baskets and fill them with flowers. Discover with your children the world of plants and flowers during the month of May. Plants are living things. Many plants have flowers, but some do not. Flowers come in many shapes and make the seeds that grow into new plants.

Sand and Desert Preschool and Kindergarten Activities and Crafts. Sand can be poured, measured, and mixed with water to build cities and castles. It cycles through time into rock and then, back again. It carpets desert floors and is home to many living things. The activities and games in this theme build on children's natural love of playing in the sandbox in ways that promote literacy, develop math and science concepts, increase environmental awareness, and strengthen vocabulary. So, get out the shovels and pails and dig in!

Butterfly and caterpillar activities, lessons, games, crafts, and printables for preschool and kindergarten. Crawl and fly into springtime with this theme on caterpillars and butterflies. These two forms of the same creature provide opportunities for children to learn about insect life cycles and develop compare and contrast skills. In addition, children are introduced to the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many fun rhymes and games that encourage language development, movement, nutrition, math ability, and respect for the natural world.

Calendar Preschool and Kindergarten Activities and Printables. Every year the earth rotates one time around the sun. Help children learn about the organization of this time into days, weeks, and months with this theme on the calendar. Fun preschool activities and ideas to incorporate into morning circle time, songs, movement, literacy activities, and games are all included. Children can graph birthday months, make word wheels, learn about ordinal numbers, sequence the days of the week, and more.

Camping Preschool Activities, Games, Crafts, and Printables. Summer is a time for camping out under the stars, snuggling up in sleeping bags, and roasting marshmallows over a campfire! This month's theme offers a mountain of ideas for bringing the fun of camping into the classroom. Included are activities and games that develop literacy, increase vocabulary, teach math concepts, and spotlight the wonders of nature. Children count, add, subtract, problem solve, read, listen, write, match, sing, act, move, exercise, and more!

Bugs and Garden Critters preschool and kindergarten activities, crafts, games, and lessons. Garden critters, worms, snails, ladybugs, bees, caterpillars and butterflies are the focus of these preschool lesson plans and activities. Learn all about the critters that wiggle their way through the dirt and buzz around the garden! Together with your children, you will explore nature and the environment that surrounds us.

The Fourth of July is here. It's a time for family and friends to gather for barbecues and fireworks displays and to honor the courage and faith of our founding fathers.It's time to paint the sky RED, WHITE, and BLUE, and we have just the crafts and activity ideas to help make your Fourth of July a spectacular celebration. Join the Independence Day parade--make some of our patriotic craft ideas and learn about the American Flag.

Preschool and Kindergarten Circus Activities, Crafts, Games, and Printables. A circus theme brings out the performer in everyone. Children dress up as clowns, jump like lions through hoops, and pretend to walk a tightrope. Turn the classroom ceiling into the top of a circus tent with scarves or a parachute. Then, enjoy the show as children learn under the big top through song, rhyme, movement, literacy, math activities, and more!